Run live cricket player auctions
without the chaos
Real-time bidding, purses the software enforces, and one console to run the room.
Player Registrations
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Teams & Squads
Jersey Kings
+6Live Auction
Marcus
Live$14K
Try it
Bid on a lot and watch the ceilings move
Eight owners, one player on the block. Press Bid on a team, then Hammer to sell. The max bid on each card is computed by the same function the live auction uses.
Try the auction board
Sample teams and players. Nothing here is saved.
Bidders · 4
Sovereign Spartans
Harry Whitaker
- Purse left
- $3K
- Max bid
- $2.8K
2 more to sign, so the rest is held back
Atlas Blasters
Arjun Nair
- Purse left
- $900
- Max bid
- $900
Apex Gladiators
Liam Fletcher
- Purse left
- $600
- Max bid
- $200
3 more to sign, so the rest is held back
Phoenix Warriors
Shakib Hasan
- Purse left
- $400
- Max bid
- $0
3 more to sign, so the rest is held back
On the block
Dilshan Perera
All Rounder · base $500
Current bid
$500
No bids yet. The first bid buys at base price.
Max bid is not the purse. A team still owing itself squad slots has to keep enough back to fill them, so its ceiling sits below what it holds. That figure is computed here by the same function the live auction uses.
What it does
Built for a cricket auction, not for bidding in general
An auction is a room, a clock and money that runs out. Most of the work is stopping the wrong thing from happening quickly.
Bidding that stays in sync
Auctioneer, owners and the big screen see one price. Nobody refreshes.
Budgets the software enforces
A bid that would leave a squad unfillable is refused on the server, before it reaches the board.
The mechanics of a real auction
Categories that come up together, base prices per tournament, category or player, and a real unsold flow.
One console to run the room
Block, bid, pause, skip, undo a mis-click, hammer. The whole night from one screen.
Owners bid from their phones
A link, not an app. Owners track their purse live; spectators need no account.
A screen for the hall, an overlay for the stream
A projector board, plus a transparent browser source for OBS or Streamlabs in two layouts.
A record when it is over
Branded PDF squad sheets and an auction summary, so the night survives the hall.
Before you set one up
Three numbers decide whether the night works
- Budget per team
- Base price
- Squad size
A team must be able to fill its squad at the base price.Everything above that floor is the only money genuinely in play.
Set them without checking and it surfaces on the night, when a team runs out with slots still empty. The purse calculator runs this with the same function the live auction caps a bid with.
Start to finish
How an auction night runs here
01
Set the three numbers
Budget per team, base price and squad size, in Auction setup. They constrain each other, so it is worth doing deliberately.
02
Build the pool
Registrations arrive through your form, or import a spreadsheet. Group players into categories if you want them to come up together.
03
Run the night
Put a player on the block and take bids. Every bid is checked against the purse and the squad rules as it is placed.
04
Hand out the squads
Export the squad sheets, and the public page shows every team what it bought.
None of it assumes one room. Owners join from a link in their own browser, so an auction run remotely follows the same four steps with half the table dialling in.
The rest of the cluster
What to read before auction night
A calculator and four pieces written from auctions actually run here, rather than from a template.
- Auction purse calculatorSet the budget, base price and squad size before you commit to them.
- How a cricket player auction worksThe night, start to finish, for a first-time organizer.
- Bid increments explainedWhy an IPL ladder breaks a fifty thousand purse.
- The auction-day run sheetThe week before, the hour before, and the night itself.
- Why auctions stallSix failures, from the 17 auctions set up here and the 5 that ran.
The people behind the tournaments.
We put the auction up on a projector and the hall went quiet every time a bid came in. First time it felt like an event instead of a meeting.
Players registered themselves with photo, role and bowling style. We used to spend a week collecting that over WhatsApp and half of it still came in wrong.
I hammered a player to the wrong team and undid it in a second, in front of the whole room. The bidding just carried on.
The squad and auction PDFs at the end are what the committee actually wanted. Every player, base price and final bid on record, and nobody typed it up.
Entry fees came in over UPI straight to my own account, with the payment screenshot sitting on each registration. No cash box and no register.
Our second season took one evening to set up. The format, the purse and the bid steps were already the way we wanted them.
Good to know
Cricket auction questions, answered
Auctions
How does the live bidding work?
Every device holds the same auction state over a realtime connection: the player on the block, the current bid, who is leading and what each team has left. The auctioneer takes bids from one console and nobody has to refresh to see the board.
Can team owners bid from their phones?
Owners open a shareable link in any mobile browser, with no app and no install. They follow the player on the block, their remaining purse and the most they can safely bid without stranding their squad.
What happens if two bids land at the same moment?
The server decides, not the browser. Bids are serialised against a lock on the team, so the second is either accepted at a higher price or refused with a reason. A stale tab cannot seat a team as leading bidder at a price that was never showing.
Budgets
Does it enforce team budgets automatically?
Yes, and further than the balance. A team has to keep back enough to fill the squad slots it still owes, priced at the cheapest player left in the pool, so a bid that would leave it unable to field a legal squad is refused before it reaches the board.
How do I decide the purse and the base price?
Work backwards from the squad: filling the minimum squad at base price should cost about a quarter to a third of the purse, leaving the rest as real bidding room. The auction purse calculator does that arithmetic with the same limit the live auction enforces.
Pricing
Is it free to run an auction?
A tournament of up to 3 teams and 75 players runs free, with no card and no trial clock, and that includes the auction. Beyond that you pay one flat price for each extra team, up to 32 teams, charged once for the tournament rather than every month. Every feature is on every plan, so paying more buys a bigger event and never a bigger feature list.
Run your auction night like the pros
Every feature on every plan. Free for up to 3 teams, auction included.
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